Lazy Sunday and Weekend

We had only a few things on the agenda for the weekend. Saturday we had a birthday party to go to. Monday I have to work part of the day. That leaves today to try and get a few things done in preparation for the first week of school – actually, the school year.

I have a few meals that I have prepped and are ready to be cooked or put into the crockpot for an easy dinner. Yesterday before we went to the party, I put 2 pounds of ground beef together into a crockpot meatloaf and 15 meatballs for another meal (or two) were flash frozen. This morning I spent the last two hours making piles of waffles for the kids and using this new recipe (as soon as I remember where it came from I’ll link it) made a double batch of Oatmeal Blender Waffles. These smell GREAT and I think will be a great quick breakfast for me (and maybe the kids since I can’t get them to eat oatmeal but they might eat it with syrup and chocholate chips.

Friday night I cooked chicken breast in the crock pot. I should have enough for 2 meals of chicken and dumplings and 2 meals of chicken taco salads.

Here’s the meal plan for the week:

1) Chicken / Dumplings ( we had this tonight. The kids all complained that they didn’t want to eat cuz they wanted to watch tv. when they finally sat down, all 4 started eating and all you could hear was the fork hitting the plates. After about 5 minutes Amalia said “this is so good I can’t even talk cuz I don’t want to stop eating! – it is better than restaurant dinners!” After we all agreed that it was really yummy, the rest of them finished it in 5 minutes flat! – so glad I made a large batch and we should be able to have it again for leftovers dinner!)

2) Meatloaf

3) Spaghetti / meatballs

4) Pizza

5) Chicken Taco Salad

6) Nuggets/Fries

7) Leftovers/Out to dinner

It is better for me to not plan down to the day cuz I just don’t know what I will feel like eating each night but if I have 6 meals planned it helps after school much easier.